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Bloomberg said Manhattan federal prosecutors are investigating entities related to Huang Le for suspected smuggling of Supermicro products into China, and the Justice Department has a parallel espionage investigation, and Supermicro has expressed cooperation.
Bloomberg reported on the 12th, citing people familiar with the matter,Manhattan Federal prosecutors are investigating whether entities linked to Huang Le were involvedsupermicro Computer (super microcomputer) products are smuggled into China.
Supermicro is a partner of Nvidia (also known as Nvidia) and assembles servers with Nvidia chips. The investigation is separate from a separate Justice Department investigation into Huang Le’s former employer, MegaSpeed International, for suspected chip trafficking.
Bloomberg reported that it is not clear whether the investigation is related to chip smuggling cases that have been prosecuted in the United States or Asia, and it is also unclear what role Huang Le or related entities played in it.
Huang himself is not the subject of a federal investigation, but a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the Justice Department has a parallel espionage investigation that also includes an investigation into Huang’s relationship with Huang.
This is not the first time Supermicro has been implicated in smuggling charges. In March this year, co-founder Wally Liaw and two others were accused of transferring servers equipped with Huida chips to China through a company in Southeast Asia. Liao Yixian has pleaded not guilty and resigned as director of Supermicro; Another man in the case, Ting-Wei Willie Sun, pleaded guilty last month.
Bloomberg said Supermicro has not been charged and said it was cooperating with the investigation.
Huang Le, 49, is said to be in Beijing and Bloomberg was unable to contact him. China dismissed the spying allegations as a “slander campaign”.
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People familiar with the matter said prosecutors are investigating whether entities related to Huang Le were involved in smuggling Supermicro products into China; The relevant roles and details of the case have not yet been fully clarified.
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Bloomberg said it is an independent investigation into entities related to Huang Le. It is separate from another case the Justice Department is investigating Huang Le’s former employer, MegaSpeed International, for suspected chip trafficking. The two cases are not the same.
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In March this year, Supermicro co-founder Liao Yixian and three others were accused of transferring servers equipped with Huida chips to China through a Southeast Asian company; One of them has pleaded guilty, and Supermicro has not been charged.
